manuscripts held onto

elements (case, binding).

written on the parchment was scratched out

mostly in monasteries.

then only a few have reached us

By the end of the 15th century, 35

so expensive material

55 thousand Greek, 30 thousand Armenian

and 12 thousand Georgian manuscripts

antiquities. These are the Egyptian papyri

consists of the book itself

Many calligraphers have acquired

commonly associated with

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